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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Last year's Mad Hatter Tea Party was a tasty trip through Wonderland!﻿

Already making plans for the summer?

It's that time again! The Growing Gourmets children's summer cooking camps are coming back. Don't forget to sign your children up for a fun week of hands-on cooking! Located in the Fairfield neighborhood right here in Cypress, Texas, the classes offer children ages 8-12 the opportunity to expand their culinary skills in a home environment. The classes are kept small for the best possible instruction. All the camps have fun themes to make learning fun. Each child will even get to take home a notebook full of his or her very own recipes.

Six Flags over Texas is the
slogan used to describe the six nations that had sovereignty over the current
territory of the US state of Texas. We are going to take a culinary tour through
Texas history and explore how the cuisine of each nation is reflected in the
foods we love today. We will travel through history creating and tasting recipes
from the past. We’ll include a day for pioneers, eating like cowboys on the
trail, and exploring the cuisine of the French, Spanish, Mexican (even German,
though it is not one of the six flags) immigrants who influenced our current
culinary tastes with dishes like homemade tortillas, kolaches and paellas. Join
us for the best tasting history lesson you’ve ever had!

Mixing science and art, this class will cover the
fundamentals of baking as we create beautiful and delicious pastries and
desserts. We will learn how to make classic pastry cream and Pate’ Sucre (French
pastry dough) as we create delicious tarts. Add molten chocolate cake, crème
brulee, Madeleines, and poached pear anglais for a complete French pastry tour.
Finally we bring out the Michelangelo in all of us, but instead of using a
paintbrush we will create edible art with a pastry bag as we learn the secrets
for decorating beautiful cookies and cakes. This class is perfect for students
wanting to expand their pastry skills and satisfy their sweet tooth all in one.

Having good manners are important every day, not just when
we sit down to dine at a fancy restaurant. This four-day session will focus on
etiquette, setting the table and good table manners as we cook recipes that test
even the neatest and most polite child! Please don’t think this is a “stuffy,
boring” class…for we will use our etiquette expertise to “travel” to exotic
lands and have…high tea in England…pastries on the sidewalk cafes of
Paris…fondue on the long voyage aboard the Orient Express from Paris, Vienna,
Amsterdam to Turkey…and a fine dining experience at the Plaza in New
York

Questions:Please feel free to email me at
robin@sussiebox.com with any questions
you might have. Classes will meet at my home and class size will be kept small
for the best hands-on experience. Please consider enrolling early to reserve a
space.